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Foods to boost your beneficial bugs
Our billions of resident microbes can help us beat disease and improve mental health. Diet has a huge influence on maintaining a healthy microbiome. Tim Spector Professor of Genetic Epidemiology runs the British Gut Project - with insights into the foods to boost and maintain the diversity of bugs in the gut
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